Re: optimizing reports

2007-10-10 Thread Josh Sled
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suppose this raises the larger issue of what is going on long-term with the reports. Is the amount of work necesary to fix the performance issues sufficient to warrant looking at the long term goal with reporting with an eye to just doing that

Re: optimizing reports

2007-10-07 Thread Dan Widyono
As a humble suggestion, it might pay large dividends to invest some time researching scheme profiling methods. This would cover Christian's ideas of checking what was really bogging down the report(s), and would help you or anyone else fix or speed up other reports in the future. Perhaps folks

Re: optimizing reports

2007-10-07 Thread Derek Atkins
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suppose this raises the larger issue of what is going on long-term with the reports. Is the amount of work necesary to fix the performance issues sufficient to warrant looking at the long term goal with reporting with an eye to just doing that

Re: optimizing reports

2007-10-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:48:00AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: My personal opinion: I'd add in e-guile if I could find a free weekend to actually hack on GnuCash. I think it's a short term fix for the templating issue, not a long-term solution. ITs more complicated than I can handle at

Re: optimizing reports

2007-10-06 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Samstag, 6. Oktober 2007 05:28 schrieb Andrew Sackville-West: I'm bent on improving the speed of some of these reports That's great! I think I've mentioned that before, but I'm also very unhappy with the current speed aka slowness of the text reports. I'm especially unhappy about that

Re: optimizing reports

2007-10-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 11:23:53AM +0200, Christian Stimming wrote: Am Samstag, 6. Oktober 2007 05:28 schrieb Andrew Sackville-West: I'm bent on improving the speed of some of these reports That's great! I think I've mentioned that before, but I'm also very unhappy with the current speed

Re: optimizing reports

2007-10-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 09:11:57AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: ... In all honesty, and in due respect to whoever rewrote that part, it looks like it was written by someone who doesn't know scheme or functional languages in general. that came out way worse sounding than I meant or

Re: optimizing reports

2007-10-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 11:23:53AM +0200, Christian Stimming wrote: Am Samstag, 6. Oktober 2007 05:28 schrieb Andrew Sackville-West: I'm bent on improving the speed of some of these reports That's great! I think I've mentioned that before, but I'm also very unhappy with the current speed

optimizing reports

2007-10-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Hi guys, I'm bent on improving the speed of some of these reports and want to bounce some ideas off you folks. The particular report I'm interested in improving is the income statement. On my smaller file (133k) it takes about 20 seconds to run a bog standard income statement. I haven't timed it